Is That Confidence in Your Pocket…

Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love! - Homer J Simpson

If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else!
- Yogi Berra

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot
- Unknown

Here we are on a Saturday evening. Hanukkah is over and Christmas is just a few short days away. The retailers are hoping we all still have money to spend…and so are our children. Down here in the south, the kids are all off for the next two weeks, and of course, the adults are jealous. Wouldn’t it be nice to have that schedule again? Maybe I should have been a teacher.

The Safe Money Report is a monthly newsletter that provides independent research and includes ideas in when to take profits and protect your principal. The latest, “Washington Sowing the Seeds of Bond Market Crash,” is calling for our next big problem in the markets. According to Martin Weiss, “investors are more exposed to a bond market crash than at virtually any time in recorded history.” While this sounds like a “Sky is Falling” type prophecy, Weiss has some very valid arguments. It is worth your time and energy to at least read the piece and decide for yourself.

Next we have John Bollinger’s Capital Growth Letter. The most recent edition focuses on volatility and how you could potentially use it to your advantage. Also check out the updates on all of the markets and his outlook for the near future, and as always, take a peak at the model portfolio and see if you stack up.

“Confidence is Staging a Comeback” at the Fidelity Sector Investor. Jim Lowell shares his opinion on global confidence and how it has stayed positive despite Dubai, Bernanke and the expanding U.S. government. You also get updates on the FSI portfolios, and there are many of them to choose from.

Over at ZepInvest, we all hope that you have or had a wonderful holiday. If you have any questions, comments or ideas, we would love to hear from you. Don’t be shy. Contact us and let us know how you really feel.

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The Wild Card

Man plans. God laughs. – Yiddish proverb

Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?
– George Carlin

So this post was supposed to be written yesterday, but sometimes life gets in the way. As we head into this holiday season, it will be like no other in recent history. In order to survive, retailers will try just about anything to create traffic in the coming weeks. Based on some of the leaked news coming out about Black Friday deals, many of these stores will be practically giving away merchandise. Considering unemployment is still extremely high and the housing market hasn’t seen much improvement, these stores may not have a choice.

Most families will try to make due with less this year, and like my family, they’ll try to hide the difference from the children. Like the retail markets, the stock market is still having a sale. While the product isn’t as cheap as it was a year ago, there are still many great deals out there for investors to take advantage of. ZepInvest has brought together a group of investors, analysts and money managers to help you uncover those hidden gems.

John Bollinger’s Capital Growth Letter is a monthly newsletter that applies technical analysis to value investing. It covers stocks, bonds, commodities, FOREX and the international markets. The current edition titled “New Bollinger Band Tool” discusses the current state of the market and uses charts to analyze the different indexes and sectors. Read about his opinion on gold, oil and some of the sector plays that he thinks are available as well as a new analytical tool he has developed.

The Spear Report by Gregory Spear is a weekly publication that uses over 125 sources of unbiased financial information daily and uses a performance-weighted ranking system. The current release, “Inflection Point,” they discuss disconnect between the consumer sentiment and the rally in the stock market. “Mom and Pop are not celebrating this rally.” Another point made is with the major surge in the deficit, “the U.S. will not be able to afford a tax cut, so the only recourse the U.S. has is to let the dollar slide.”

Jim Lowell’s Fidelity Sector Investor is a weekly newsletter that uses a highly technical and aggressive approach. This publication is designed for active and risk-tolerant investors. In the most recent release, “Betwixt and Between Recovering and Having Recovered,” there is a short market commentary followed by market data for many of the FSI portfolios. Lowell uses Fidelity sector funds to build his portfolios.

After the first week of this newly established blog, we have covered 16 of the over 70 newsletters and publications available to you through ZepInvest. Whether it is daily, weekly or monthly information you are looking for, equities, mutual funds, ETFs, etc…the information is right here at your fingertips.

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